Changing the course of Earth's climate is increasingly urgent, but there is also a concurrent
need for proactive stewardship of the adaptive capacity of the rapidly changing biosphere …

BACKGROUND Biodiversity is under siege, with greatly enhanced rates of local and global
extinction and the decline of once-abundant species. Current rates of human-induced …

Chapter 2, building on prior assessments1, provides a global assessment of the observed
impacts and projected risks of climate change to terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems …

Chapter 2, building on prior assessments, provides a global assessment of the observed
impacts and projected risks of climate change to terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems …

International agreements aim to conserve 17% of Earth's land area by 2020 but include no
area‐based conservation targets within the working landscapes that support human needs …

Wildfires across western North America have increased in number and size over the past
three decades, and this trend will continue in response to further warming. As a …

Patterns, mechanisms, projections, and consequences of tree mortality and associated
broad‐scale forest die‐off due to drought accompanied by warmer temperatures—“hotter …

While decision-making can benefit from considering positive and negative outcomes of
change, over the past half-century, research on non-native species has focused …

Ecosystem transformation involves the emergence of persistent ecological or social–
ecological systems that diverge, dramatically and irreversibly, from prior ecosystem structure …

Many ecosystems around the world are rapidly deteriorating due to both local and global
pressures, and perhaps none so precipitously as coral reefs. Management of coral reefs …